JFK-bound flight has to turn around after plane hits coyote on tarmac

New Yorkers have grown accustomed to bird strikes forcing passenger jets to turn around — or land in a river. But a coyote on the tarmac?

That’s so Rhode Island.

The Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday that JetBlue flight 1129, an Airbus A320 heading to JFK International Airport in Queens, had to turn around because it hit a coyote upon takeoff…

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